Singapore-based travel photographer "Colsteel" has a couple of blog posts that will be of interest to anyone considering a small, lightweight camera kit for their travels.

I decided to travel very light with a totally minimalist kit comprising a Nikon V1 with two lens kit (10-30 & 30-110), my tiny Manfrotto travel tripod and a small Manfrotto led light.

… I usually base my travel kit around a Nikon D3 with 24 & 50 F1.4 lenses. Regular readers will also know however that I have a very strong dislike of lugging too much gear when I travel and so I have been thinking about a lightweight travel kit which I initially intended to compliment the D3 with some reasonable zoom capability. Like many others, I initially regarded the launch of the Nikon V1 with scorn …

Nikon Imaging have posted a range of samples from the new D800 and D800E DSLRs. The D800E images focus mainly on landscape with a single fashion image, as you might expect - it's obvious who Nikon are targeting with that variant.